Monday, July 22, 2013

So we have reached the end of Round Three......

The battles in round Three went pretty much how I thought they would except for The Group C Linda Roberts/Helena Tang affair.

As much as I like Linda's "Crystal Volcano" I thought Helena's "Phoenix Collar" would win the day.What I found particularly interesting about the voting for this battle is how close the voting was from the invited judges/participant pool. Seems like a number of the voters were swayed by the seemingly more frequent potential opportunities to go out wearing something like "Crystal Volcano".

Congratulations to both Linda and Helena on a job well done. Beady warriors through and through........

I love working with tiny seedbeads because of their colors, textures and the vast potential they have for original design. I decided to make a vest because I had never done one (and probably will never do one again, lol).

1. Name of piece - Warrior Princess

My vest was inspired by the idea of mythic princesses and goddesses wearing armor with "bling".

2. Stitches used - Bead Embroidery, vest and belt are original patterns by tropicalkaren

Edit Peng: Bluebird In EdenI met beading accidentally in 2007 - and I wasn’t able to leave it any more.Internet articles and videos helped me to start, I studied some books of beading techniques, then I found beading courses in Budapest.I made friends with a couple of nice artists. We laughed a lot while I was learning a lot.I’ve used different creative techniques, nowadays soutache is my favourite one.